ChrisBcritter

should read horoscope

Thus extending a middle finger to the kangaroo. I can hardly wait to see those taillights as they should look.

^^^Oooeee. There's a lot to be said for finding early issues of some kits.

Just rolled back in from the DuPage show with a bunch of small stuff: The '56 Ford vert is complete (rest is in a bag); really wanted it for the dog dish caps but it will go back together nicely once I mold them. As you can see from the Pontiac photo etch set, Okey Spalding was there with Jo-Han stuff. He has resin copies of the '59 Dodge as a transkit for the AMT '58 Plymouth; the wheelbase of the Plymouth has to be stretched about 4" in scale (4mm). Not shown: a cheeep complete-in-a-bag Revell '59 Skyliner as a donor for the PMC '59 Ford wagon body I got last month, and an AMT '59 Ford interior I scored on eBay this morning. Got outbid on a windshield I really needed, however ... Hey, there's a potential thread: "What did you get outbid on today?"

Or good old fashioned lowering blocks between the spring and rear axle. Then there was heating the front coils with a torch until the car sank the desired amount, which was just as safe as it sounds .

Oh dark thirty this morning I got up the nerve to drill out the distributor/coil unit for the '65 Nova and paint it. Please pass the Visine and aspirin .

Oh, is that what it is. (Full disclosure: I have a long-stalled project - a six-wheeled two-seat roadster made from a '62 Dodge - so, something something "glass houses"...)

PMC did a promo: (images via autohobbyheritage.com) I've been hoping to find one of those Dodge trucks in bad shape to pull that Poly V8 engine from; nobody else has done it in scale that I'm aware of.

^^^ That bad, huh?

Right back atcha!

He is survived by his hair.

of a salesman

I cleared out my PB account and now have over 4500 images on Flickr. Which now I can't sign in on with XP. Fortunately my dad's machine is on Windows 7 which should be good for a little while.

don't we all

"I need an image for our online ad." "Great! I'll work up a couple layouts and see what you - " "You have three minutes. GO!" "Uh - ooookay."

Very cool indeed; it's got those little 13" four-hole Halibrand wheels you can't get anywhere else. Great for the front of small drag cars like Topolinos, English Fords, Crosleys, etc. Oh - and the Continental's a '60.

That's why he said he couldn't!

obscure-brand food

The other thread about San Francisco reminded me of my first visit there in the summer of '73. We went into a little discount store in Chinatown where I picked up an Aurora '60 T-bird and a Pyro '48 Continental. Little did I know... I remember seeing a couple of the AMT Double Dragster kits as well. I remember those quite well - just couldn't bring myself to pay full retail ($2.25) for kits there. Only exception was when I just had to have the molded-in-red AMT '32 Ford Vicky fire chief's car.

paid off judge

As I've mentioned, per JohnG at Round2, the '63 Nova wagon's interior and chassis molds are lost . Seems like nobody responded about the wagon on the Round2 site's latest post, so I just now did - it's awaiting moderation. http://www.collectormodel.com/round2-models/4899-round-2-models-live-2020-model-kit-preview/?unapproved=222097&moderation-hash=10bc5caf955e47b37ba142da9ff099ef#comment-222097

Spent the evening at the LMMCC meeting helping member Steve Francissen to set up and tally the Model of the Year contest, featuring the past year's Model of the Month winners. Leslie Piagari kindly helped me gather up six of the seven excellent models Tom entered in 2019; the winners will be announced at next month's meet.

Very decent indeed - it's curbside, but very accurately shaped - I'll bet it was scaled down from the master from the 1/25 promo.

BZZZT! Four words!

Or if you saw Duke Mitchell's Massacre: Mafia Style, "Did they ever catch the guys who shot everybody on the 31st floor including the janitor?" (Too bad Mitchell and Halicki never did a movie together!)